slammed in enough wind farms to supply 54 % of the Nation's wind
farm operating capacity... and that's with only 7.2 % of Australia's population..
Not exact matches
But every time I take a closer look at the balance sheet, it's a bloody challenge... For example, the value of
operating wind
farm plant & equipment is recorded at EUR 415 million (USD 549 million), but deal multiples clearly indicate 351 MW of
operating wind
farm capacity's worth significantly more!?
But NTR's slimmed down radically — now, its entire net worth is essentially invested in Wind Capital Group, which owns &
operates two US wind
farms (351 MW of total
capacity, with 20 year investment grade PPAs in place).
Mastering this rural Wall Street is crucial to keeping your
farm operating at its peak
capacity.
The Collgar Wind
Farm, which started generating power in May 2011 and became fully operational in October 2011 doubled WA's installed wind power
capacity (see the graph at
Operating WA wind
farms).
The company
operates a 165 - turbine wind
farm near Milford and exports its 306 - megawatt
capacity to Southern California.
First Wind today owns and
operates 12 wind
farms in six states, its portfolio comprising more than 500 turbines with a combined generating
capacity of roughly 1,000 megawatts, or enough to power about 285,000 homes.
More than 4,000 MW of Canada's wind generating
capacity has been
operating for five years or more, and as the country's turbine fleet ages, it is becoming increasingly important for leaders in the industry to collectively focus on strategies to maximize wind
farm performance and strive for operational excellence.
These prices have been influenced by mild summer temperatures (with fewer and shorter high - price peak periods), reduced demand and the growing deployment of rooftop solar PV, and the increasing
capacity of connected wind
farms, «the lower
operating costs of which put downwards pressure on spot prices.»
Critics argue, for example, that a wind turbine
farm can only
operate at a «
capacity factor» (a ratio that measures the potential output of an energy source against its actual output) of 30 to 35 percent, while a nuclear reactor
operates at around 90 percent.
For 24 GW of power plants
operating at an average of 13 %
capacity factor (assumed by EDM - 2011), the land area would be around 35 million hectares and involve nearly 75,000 average sized wheat
farms.
The English
Farms and Upland Prairie wind farms with respective 170 MW and 300 MW of installed capacity will be owned and operated by Alliant Energy's Iowa energy company and provide clean and reliable renewable sourced electricity to its customers in
Farms and Upland Prairie wind
farms with respective 170 MW and 300 MW of installed capacity will be owned and operated by Alliant Energy's Iowa energy company and provide clean and reliable renewable sourced electricity to its customers in
farms with respective 170 MW and 300 MW of installed
capacity will be owned and
operated by Alliant Energy's Iowa energy company and provide clean and reliable renewable sourced electricity to its customers in Iowa.
Based on data from the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), the author indicates that in 2015 Ontario's wind
farms operated at less than one third of their
capacity, approximately 60 % of the time.
For an owner - operator with seven wind
farms, each composed of 15 1.5 - megawatt turbines
operating at a 25 percent
capacity factor, every one percent production increase represents 241,000 euros per year.
The wind
farm now has seven Enercon E-92 wind turbines
operating with a total
capacity of 16.1 megawatts — which is enough to power 4,900 Nova Scotian homes.
Duke Energy Corp., a U.S. utility that
operates 986 megawatts of wind - energy
capacity, selected Xtreme Power Inc. to design and install the world's largest power - storage system linked to a wind
farm.
My calculations on Cathedral Rocks Wind
Farm (see below and in the box on the right) suggest that it would be desirable if the pumps have twice the
capacity of the hydro - generators; so perhaps 250MW in pumps and 125MW in generators (maximum
operating time 40 hours) would be preferable.
Consider this reality: ONE (1) 450 MW gas - fired Combined Cycle Generating Unit located at New York City (where the power is needed in NYS)--
operating at 60 %
Capacity Factor, would provide more power than all of NYS's 16 installed wind factories combined, at 1/4 of the capital costs — and would have significantly reduced CO2 emissions and created far more jobs than all those wind
farms — without all the added costs (economic, environmental, and civil), and of all the transmission lines that must be added across the state to NYC.